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The downvote is not a "disagree button". Grow up

Thank you for this reply. I do agree that euphemism creep is a thing. My position is just that his skit on this particular topic seemed very anti-intellectual. It's the same kind of bogus logic used when people who say "just get over it" to someone with serious depression: "back in my day, we just kept a stiff upper lip (meanwhile ignoring all those between now and then who blew their brains out because their lip strategy failed) ".

I do agree that in most cases the language can be contorted to conceal or smooth the direct adjective. I.e African American, minority, margininalized, etc

Not all war PTSD is caused from "shells". So to use his logic, unless your flashbacks and hyper awareness (oops those are newfangled psychological terms, guess they have to be dumbed down right?) are caused by the use of mortar shells, then any other use of that term is disingenuous, right?

That's not far from "dumb it down". If science has proven a link between all forms of trauma such as accidents or rape, then its worth reflecting that in the name. His skit was a slap in the face to psychology that is actively researching how to help vets and other PTSD sufferers. Hes redirecting the frustrations caused by the disease back at the very community trying to fight it

There are definitely health risks. Look at all the bottles that have the "BPA-free" disclaimer on them.

He also thumbed his nose at PTSD. Basically mocking any advancements in understanding it and it's treatment, because "back in WWI they called it shell shock"

H2O is deadly in high enough doses.

The merchant doesn't need "the system or fraud checks" to sell lattes. Furthermore they get hit with chargebacks, which are a feature offered by the CC, not the coffee shop. You're justying why business A shoulders business B's expense. That's like saying Visa should wipe down the espresso machine.

And it would dismantle the sexist construct that allows attractive women to claim disproportionately higher wages than men.

it's disgusting that the person who spends may 30 seconds providing service gets X% of the bill

Yikes,wait till you find out how much the ACH and CC networks get for providing a fully automated service.

That was the first thing I asked the barista once I became a regular and tipped Them: do you actually get these tips? She reassured me they did.

What bothers me is the ACH networks still get their cut of the tip (assuming they get a percentage of sale and not a flat rate). No visa, you don't need 5% of the waitress hard work.

Hollywood accounting semantics

All colleges are "for profit" when their athletic coach and mid-level bureaucrat salaries start at several hundred thousand dollars but most classes are taught by grad students earning < 20/hr. Where do you think that money comes from?

What's silly is to ever allow an institution to take 10% or more of your earnings. Unless they're doing 10% of the work for you, they're not entitled to any claim to the earnings. All that does is perpetuate the gatekeeper fallacy that somehow you need to "pay your dues (to the institution)"

Just like the US

I'm skeptical that that many of them are getting into the ocean. I wonder if it would be more effective to put a UUID on them and tell the public that if one of these is found in the ocean a full investigation will be launched. Not just for reprisal, but to develop "user stories" about how this shit gets into the ocean. If they determine that you dumped it , then you get fined to pay for 10^5 lbs of trash to be removed from the sea. If there's even a little FUD of getting caught (via UUID) I think it would result in a huge reduction in littering.

If you're a subscriber, you're the most valuable advertising target

Back in the 90s my dad used to buy shit from mail order catalogs. The volume and variety of catalogs he got in return was obscene. Seemingly every day he'd get a new catalog for something.

You can't buy that car. It's not a Ferrari product.

I'm not familiar with the term bonk, but I thought the glycogen in each major muscle ran out after about 20m? I've read many times that during cardio the body starts burning fat only after the first 20m. Then it releases a chemical to begin burning calories from fatty tissue.

I can "feel" the lag in the android experience and it's the same lag that I get from desktop apps written in java. It's not just FUD. Almost always when there's a memory-bloated application it's written in java. Hell, adk won't even run unless you increase the -Xmms setting to 4+ gb.

People rightfully pointed out that tablets are plenty powerful to do DSP type applications, but something is consuming all the resources. I'm just saying what that something is.

What about all the delays from the use of java? Even if your audio app is in c++ for performance, it's still competing for resources with many other java apps easily using gigabytes of ram just idling. I don't see any way to mitigate that.

They had that 10 years ago and called it "system restore", but they couldn't figure out how to actually...make it work.

Besides, msft makes money by selling SaaS. There's no financial incentive to protecting consumer data since the EULA indemnifies the company for any damages caused by their products.

That is a really interesting point. We've been so conditioned that nuclear war == "end of humanity" that if it happened as you described, everyone would lose their minds for no real reason (inasmuch as the consequences would be no worse than for a conventional war).

But taking that further, what is the point then, of taking out your enemy's bases or bunkers? I realize how dense that question sounds. But in the context of a surgical nuclear strike, ok you wiped most of their airbases off the face of the earth...now what?

It seems rather pointless unless you intend to actually invade, in which case you're in for millions of very hostile civilians and not much to gain

2 mods, at least $100k/yr